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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Cauliflower and lettuce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 151 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Breakfast

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare oatmeal according to package instructions.

  2. Bake rice until tender.

  3. Cook sausages until browned.

  4. Fry eggs and serve on toast.

  5. Serve currant jelly with the meal.

  6. Steam or boil cauliflower until tender.

  7. Mash white potatoes and season to taste.

  8. Prepare a lettuce salad with your choice of dressing.

  9. Make cream pudding according to recipe instructions.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Cauliflower + lettucetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together151 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  2. Rice + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together851 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  3. Potato + lettucetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together322 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  4. Rice + lettucetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together520 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Cauliflower + potatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together36 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, egg, cauliflower, potato, lettuce, cream):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, egg, cauliflower, potato, lettuce, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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